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authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>2012-08-01 03:44:03 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-08-01 05:42:45 +0400
commitb37f1dd0f543d9714f96c2f9b9f74f7bdfdfdf31 (patch)
tree4d01913bd950d60c65605cd14e0ff88b74f5f716 /include
parent5091b74a95d447e34530e713a8971450a45498b3 (diff)
downloadlinux-b37f1dd0f543d9714f96c2f9b9f74f7bdfdfdf31.tar.xz
mm: introduce __GFP_MEMALLOC to allow access to emergency reserves
__GFP_MEMALLOC will allow the allocation to disregard the watermarks, much like PF_MEMALLOC. It allows one to pass along the memalloc state in object related allocation flags as opposed to task related flags, such as sk->sk_allocation. This removes the need for ALLOC_PFMEMALLOC as callers using __GFP_MEMALLOC can get the ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK flag which is now enough to identify allocations related to page reclaim. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/gfp.h10
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mm_types.h2
-rw-r--r--include/trace/events/gfpflags.h1
3 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h
index 1e49be49d324..cbd7400e5862 100644
--- a/include/linux/gfp.h
+++ b/include/linux/gfp.h
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
#define ___GFP_REPEAT 0x400u
#define ___GFP_NOFAIL 0x800u
#define ___GFP_NORETRY 0x1000u
+#define ___GFP_MEMALLOC 0x2000u
#define ___GFP_COMP 0x4000u
#define ___GFP_ZERO 0x8000u
#define ___GFP_NOMEMALLOC 0x10000u
@@ -76,9 +77,14 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
#define __GFP_REPEAT ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_REPEAT) /* See above */
#define __GFP_NOFAIL ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_NOFAIL) /* See above */
#define __GFP_NORETRY ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_NORETRY) /* See above */
+#define __GFP_MEMALLOC ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_MEMALLOC)/* Allow access to emergency reserves */
#define __GFP_COMP ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_COMP) /* Add compound page metadata */
#define __GFP_ZERO ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_ZERO) /* Return zeroed page on success */
-#define __GFP_NOMEMALLOC ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_NOMEMALLOC) /* Don't use emergency reserves */
+#define __GFP_NOMEMALLOC ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_NOMEMALLOC) /* Don't use emergency reserves.
+ * This takes precedence over the
+ * __GFP_MEMALLOC flag if both are
+ * set
+ */
#define __GFP_HARDWALL ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_HARDWALL) /* Enforce hardwall cpuset memory allocs */
#define __GFP_THISNODE ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_THISNODE)/* No fallback, no policies */
#define __GFP_RECLAIMABLE ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_RECLAIMABLE) /* Page is reclaimable */
@@ -129,7 +135,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
/* Control page allocator reclaim behavior */
#define GFP_RECLAIM_MASK (__GFP_WAIT|__GFP_HIGH|__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|\
__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_REPEAT|__GFP_NOFAIL|\
- __GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC)
+ __GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_MEMALLOC|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC)
/* Control slab gfp mask during early boot */
#define GFP_BOOT_MASK (__GFP_BITS_MASK & ~(__GFP_WAIT|__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS))
diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
index 375e79eb009b..bf7867200b95 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ struct page {
pgoff_t index; /* Our offset within mapping. */
void *freelist; /* slub/slob first free object */
bool pfmemalloc; /* If set by the page allocator,
- * ALLOC_PFMEMALLOC was set
+ * ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS was set
* and the low watermark was not
* met implying that the system
* is under some pressure. The
diff --git a/include/trace/events/gfpflags.h b/include/trace/events/gfpflags.h
index 9fe3a36646e9..d6fd8e5b14b7 100644
--- a/include/trace/events/gfpflags.h
+++ b/include/trace/events/gfpflags.h
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
{(unsigned long)__GFP_COMP, "GFP_COMP"}, \
{(unsigned long)__GFP_ZERO, "GFP_ZERO"}, \
{(unsigned long)__GFP_NOMEMALLOC, "GFP_NOMEMALLOC"}, \
+ {(unsigned long)__GFP_MEMALLOC, "GFP_MEMALLOC"}, \
{(unsigned long)__GFP_HARDWALL, "GFP_HARDWALL"}, \
{(unsigned long)__GFP_THISNODE, "GFP_THISNODE"}, \
{(unsigned long)__GFP_RECLAIMABLE, "GFP_RECLAIMABLE"}, \